He was busted with Australia's largest haul of animal parts, some threatened and endangered, but just a few months later Indian national Keerthi Eswaran was at it again, listing animal parts including an ocelot, chipmunk tails, eagles and turtles on eBay.

Two boating brothers are injured — with one suffering puncture wounds and the other fractures and deep lacerations — after a marlin weighing as much as 100 kilograms breaches the water and lands in their vessel off the north coast of NSW.

Dr Barbara Anne York Main OAM, who died last week, was one of Australia's leading spider researchers and conservationists. She studied the world's oldest spider and championed their home at a time when both the environment and women were given no fighting chance.

MORNING BRIEFING: Police charge a man in Parramatta after finding tools to make a homemade bomb in his backpack, while Sydney residents can soon expect formal water restrictions as dry conditions continue.

Air monitoring study points finger at a major culprit in a 'global environmental crime' as provinces in northeastern China are identified as a source of an ozone-depleting CFC gas in contravention of an international treaty.

The Northern Territory's Environmental Protection Authority claims thousands of cubic metres of construction waste was illegally buried on Darwin harbour's foreshore, including some which was allegedly dumped on neighbouring government land — the proposed site of the water theme park.